Critical Voices in School Reform: Students Living through Change
ISBN: 9780415302678 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School reform of one kind or another is a priority for education systems the world over. Yet the voices of students - those most affected by, and most pivotal to, the success or failure of any program of school reform - are rarely heard on this topic. This is the first book to look at school reform from the perspective of the students. The studies included in this collection focus on reform initiatives aimed at overcoming persistent patterns of racial, class and gender inequality. The authors combine the theoretical aspects of research with its practical applications, making this an...
School reform of one kind or another is a priority for education systems the world over. Yet the voices of students - those most affected by, and most...
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912,96 zł |
Critical Voices in School Reform : Students Living through Change
ISBN: 9780415302685 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School reform of one kind or another is a priority for education systems the world over. Yet the voices of students - those most affected by, and most pivotal to, the success or failure of any program of school reform, are often ignored. Critical Voices in School Reform: Students Living Through Change is the first book to look at school reform from the perspectives of those most affected by it - the students. A youth centred approach to studying school reforms has provided valuable insight into how students experience changes in school structure.
School reform of one kind or another is a priority for education systems the world over. Yet the voices of students - those most affected by, and most...
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255,58 zł |
Education Policy: Process, Themes and Impact
ISBN: 9780415377713 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, curriculum, human resources and accountability. Each book in the series approaches its subject matter through a three-fold structure of process, themes and impact. Series Editors - Clive Dimmock, Mark... The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, an... |
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652,11 zł |
School Leadership and Administration: Adopting a Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780415932936 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the mediating influence of culture. In this way, these essays stress the specific aspects of the cultures studied, and map out common ground for the study of administrators' values, beliefs, and actions.
This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The artic...
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704,29 zł |
Managing to Be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice
ISBN: 9780415948623 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering an alternative to the failing models of educational leadership, this book places school management at the centre of debates on practice and pedagogy. Shifting the ideal away from corporate business models of management, it provides suggestions for school administrators and leaders to redefine their practice.
Offering an alternative to the failing models of educational leadership, this book places school management at the centre of debates on practice and p...
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912,96 zł |
Managing to Be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice
ISBN: 9780415948630 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering an alternative to the failing models of educational leadership, this book places school management at the centre of debates on practice and pedagogy. Shifting the ideal away from corporate business models of management, it provides suggestions for school administrators and leaders to redefine their practice.
Offering an alternative to the failing models of educational leadership, this book places school management at the centre of debates on practice and p...
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255,58 zł |
ABCs of School Leadership
ISBN: 9780595124251 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,67 zł |
Communicating School Finance: What Every Beginning Principal Needs To Know
ISBN: 9780595363933 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Communicating School Finance" is an essential fiscal guide for beginning principals, designed to help them become truly conversant in the language of everyday educational money issues. Dr. Charles R. Waggoner discusses the basics and current trends of educational finance to provide the beginning principal with a firm foundation that is essential for novice principals.
An excellent reference that is written in a clear, comprehensive manner, "Communicating School Finance" focuses on how to build budgets, how the principal affects the budget, and how the principal communicates the budget to... "Communicating School Finance" is an essential fiscal guide for beginning principals, designed to help them become truly conversant in the language of...
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Life, Etc: Advice for the Real World
ISBN: 9780684815985 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a survey into the things that matter most in our lives: attitude, knowledge, responsibility, integrity, family, friends, vision, sucess, money, business, politics. With quotations from history's great thinkers, it is intended as a lighthearted guide to life.
This work is a survey into the things that matter most in our lives: attitude, knowledge, responsibility, integrity, family, friends, vision, sucess, ...
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Managing Teachers as Professionals in Schools
ISBN: 9780749417741 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many changes in secondary education since the 1980s, owing to the introduction of the National Curriculum, a number of Education Acts and reorganization of school management/administration. This text brings together researchers, such as Chris Day, Eric Hoyle and Jenny Ozga, to examine the challenges facing education managers in the changing environment. It focuses particularly on the changes required in the management of teaching staff due to changing concepts of teacher professionality and new statutory duties.
There have been many changes in secondary education since the 1980s, owing to the introduction of the National Curriculum, a number of Education Acts ...
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245,14 zł |
Leadership for 21st Century Learning: Global Perspectives from International Experts
ISBN: 9780749432041 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public and private providers of education and training are facing a shift to a more demand-driven market and expectations of greater accessibility, flexibility, quality, relevance and efficiency. Education and training are also being transformed by new information and communications technologies and becoming more global, competitive and commercialized. Such a destabilized and uncharted environment calls for transformational leadership, both at the organizational and the operational level, to energize and empower others to share the vision of what can be accomplished, to change work cultures...
Public and private providers of education and training are facing a shift to a more demand-driven market and expectations of greater accessibility, fl...
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245,14 zł |
Professional Leadership in Schools
ISBN: 9780749432928 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the advent of appraisal, performance related pay, induction for NQTs (newly qualified teachers) and the stresses of league tables and OFSTED inspections, middle managers in secondary schools are being asked to develop and display first class management skills. This text seeks to meet the needs of those who need to develop and update skills for their present job, or who are preparing for the next step into more senior management, including the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH). Those aspiring to middle management should also find practical guidance in the book.
With the advent of appraisal, performance related pay, induction for NQTs (newly qualified teachers) and the stresses of league tables and OFSTED insp...
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School Leadership: National and International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780749433840 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published to coincide with the launch of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), this work challenges the notion that there is one right way to approach school leadership. Presenting the key policies and approaches to organization and management of 14 successful school leaders from the UK and internationally, the book seeks to reflect the diversity of approaches that are possible in given situations, and to act as a guide for anyone facing the challenges of leadership in education today. It has a focus on generic and transferable factors.
Published to coincide with the launch of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), this work challenges the notion that there is one right wa...
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208,62 zł |
Change Forces - The Sequel
ISBN: 9780750707565 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fullan's first book on this subject was an instant and best-selling success. Now in Change Forces - The Sequel he extends and expands the use of chaos theory as a lens through which to view and comprehend change, and the forces which govern it. Educators have already widely embraced this approach, and taken on board the idea that change is not so straightforward as we might hope. As Fullan worked on his ideas relating them to school systems, higher education and research, the field of change forces was also developing significantly. This volume covers new aspects of this 'science of...
Fullan's first book on this subject was an instant and best-selling success. Now in Change Forces - The Sequel he extends and expands the use...
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756,45 zł |
Catholic School Leadership: An Invitation to Lead
ISBN: 9780750708531 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catholic School Leadership addresses many of the challenges facing those who prepare faith leaders and education leaders for the Catholic schools of the future. The well-known editors and contributors to this volume have written about their personal experiences with Catholic schools; the educational foundations of Catholic schools; teacher preparation and development; Catholic school leadership; dealing with parents and families; and the challenges of technology for Catholic schools.
The contributions emphasize the perspectives of both scholars and practitioners within Catholic... Catholic School Leadership addresses many of the challenges facing those who prepare faith leaders and education leaders for the Catholic sch...
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276,44 zł |
Catholic School Leadership: An Invitation to Lead
ISBN: 9780750708548 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catholic School Leadership addresses many of the challenges facing those who prepare faith leaders and education leaders for the Catholic schools of the future. The well-known editors and contributors to this volume have written about their personal experiences with Catholic schools; the educational foundations of Catholic schools; teacher preparation and development; Catholic school leadership; dealing with parents and families; and the challenges of technology for Catholic schools.
The contributions emphasize the perspectives of both scholars and practitioners within Catholic... Catholic School Leadership addresses many of the challenges facing those who prepare faith leaders and education leaders for the Catholic sch...
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912,96 zł |
Leaders of Color in Higher Education: Unrecognized Triumphs in Harsh Institutions
ISBN: 9780759105423 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive study of leaders of color in higher education is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand and/or navigate a career path through the dangerous waters of white-controlled, status quo universities and community colleges in the United States. Based on interviews with pioneers in the field, the author draws upon their personal experiences - and his own-to examine the challenges and dilemmas facing minority members who choose the route of educational leadership. How creative leaders overcome these barriers to success in the academy is the major theme of the volume. The...
This comprehensive study of leaders of color in higher education is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand and/or navigate a career path through...
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333,34 zł |
Leaders of Color in Higher Education: Unrecognized Triumphs in Harsh Institutions
ISBN: 9780759105430 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive study of leaders of color in higher education is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand and/or navigate a career path through the dangerous waters of white-controlled, status quo universities and community colleges in the United States. Based on interviews with pioneers in the field, the author draws upon their personal experiences - and his own-to examine the challenges and dilemmas facing minority members who choose the route of educational leadership. How creative leaders overcome these barriers to success in the academy is the major theme of the volume. The...
This comprehensive study of leaders of color in higher education is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand and/or navigate a career path through...
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829,97 zł |
Coming to Critical Engagement: An Autoethnographic Exploration
ISBN: 9780761834717 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been viewed previously as service to, extension of, and outreach from is now engagement with as faculty members, students, and staff collaborate with partners in community affairs. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry.
Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been vi...
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418,08 zł |
Women Deans: Patterns of Power
ISBN: 9780761836759 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of Professor Isaac's study is to determine how five women leaders from male-dominated colleges and five from female-dominated fields achieved and maintained their roles. Specifically, Professor Isaac interviewed these women to examine their definitions of "leadership." The term "leadership" metaphorically embodies a gendered division of labor where institutions are dominated by masculine structures. This research provides a better understanding of the local context of societal relationships, as men do not simply oppress women, but women can negotiate power and become leaders....
The purpose of Professor Isaac's study is to determine how five women leaders from male-dominated colleges and five from female-dominated fields achie...
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278,78 zł |